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The Press + The Resistance

Thomas Jefferson wrote that if forced to choose between “a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” A free press was so important to the Founding Fathers that they included its protection in the First Amendment, alongside free speech.  With the three branches of our government now controlled by one party, does the Fourth Estate – the press – have a higher obligation to hold the government accountable? Or do those circumstances make the independence and impartiality of the press even more important than before? Should the press even attempt a neutral stance  when the institution of journalism, and journalists themselves, are attacked and de-legitimized by the executive branch? Join reporter and political/cultural analyst Farai Chideya, Bret Stephens and Roger Berkowitz for a conversation moderated by Rebecca Carroll on the role of the press in an endangered liberal democracy.











When: Fri., Apr. 20, 2018 at 5:30 pm
Where: New York Live Arts
219 W. 19th St.
212-691-6500
Price: $10
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Thomas Jefferson wrote that if forced to choose between “a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” A free press was so important to the Founding Fathers that they included its protection in the First Amendment, alongside free speech.  With the three branches of our government now controlled by one party, does the Fourth Estate – the press – have a higher obligation to hold the government accountable? Or do those circumstances make the independence and impartiality of the press even more important than before? Should the press even attempt a neutral stance  when the institution of journalism, and journalists themselves, are attacked and de-legitimized by the executive branch? Join reporter and political/cultural analyst Farai Chideya, Bret Stephens and Roger Berkowitz for a conversation moderated by Rebecca Carroll on the role of the press in an endangered liberal democracy.

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